3rd Pre-Faculty Career Development Conference Program
PREFAC Conference Friday & Saturday October 25th and 26th, 2024
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Topics of Particular Interest In Relation to the Role and Relationship of Chapter Advisor and Advisee
- Defining and enhancing the role and responsibilities of chapter advisors and student leaders
- Maximizing the relationship between chapter advisor and chapter student leaders/advisees to achieve organizational goals and common professional goals
- Achieving management and leadership skills through advisor/advisee role that are foundational for continued success
- Transforming experiences and achievements to diversity capital and avoiding minority taxation
- Addressing Tokenism
- Balancing roles – “chapter advisor and faculty/staff member” or “student and chapter leader”
- Managing critical conversations between chapter advisee/leader and advisor
- Providing feedback to chapter advisee/leader and advisor
- Harnessing institutional support for chapter goals and activities
- Balancing student oversight between chapter advisor and student affairs, medical education, GME
- Managing microaggressions/discrimination/harassment by chapter advisee/leader and advisor
Suggested Topics for Abstracts
- Perceptions, knowledge, attitudes of college students, post-bacc, and graduate students towards academic careers
- Educating college advisors and family members about the value and benefits of pursuing academic careers
- Pathway/pipeline/scholarly concentration programs to promote academic career exploration
- Activities/best practices to promote underrepresented groups (e.g. women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBT) exploration of academic careers
- Activities/best practices to promote trainees’ engagement in research work (e.g. biomedical, clinical, community-based) and completion of research scholarship
- Activities/best practices to promote trainees’ engagement in educational work and completion of educational scholarship
- Activities/best practices to promote trainees’ engagement in service work and completion of service scholarship
- Role modeling and mentoring as it relates to academic career exploration
- Institutional efforts and/or best practices to promote trainees’ awareness of, interest in, and preparedness for academic careers
- Considerations in selecting first academic position
- Financing an academic career
- Building a foundation for a future clinician-educator, clinician-researcher, professional practice/clinical track or another track
- Building a foundation for a future career as a senior academic leader (e.g. Center Director, Chair, Dean)
- Best practices to publishing your work